46.4% —
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 46.4%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Alberta · Suburb / Locality
Education & Qualifications in Alberta
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Fewer residents have finished high school or university in Alberta compared to the rest of the country. Only 46.4% of people here completed Year 12, which is far below the national figure of 58.8%. This trend carries through to higher education, where bachelor degrees are much less common than in other parts of Queensland.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Year 12 completion sits at 46.4%, which is far below the Queensland figure of 57.1%. About 32.1% of residents stopped at Year 10, while 14.3% finished Year 11.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Alberta, the largest group is Year 12 at 50%, followed by Year 10 (35%) and Year 11 (15%).
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
University degrees are less common here, with only 14.3% of adults holding a bachelor degree or higher. This is well below the 21.9% seen across Queensland and far below the national average of 26.3%.
14.3% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →In Alberta, the largest group is Certificate III / IV at 47%, followed by Advanced diploma / diploma (32%) and Bachelor degree (21%).
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common field of qualification is Education at 36%, ahead of Society & culture (36%).
Schools
Schools in the area and how many children they serve (ACARA).
There is only one school within 3 km, which is a government-run combined school. It is smaller than most similar schools with an average size of 111 students and has one of the lowest advantage scores for its level.
1
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Schools serving the area — within 3 km of small areas, or inside larger ones. A measure of access (catchments overlap, so don't add it across areas).
111
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Average enrolment per school in the area.
809
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
Enrolment-weighted average ICSEA — an index of socio-educational advantage, centred near 1000 (context, not a quality ranking).
Schools serving Alberta
1 school — 111 students, average ICSEA 809.
By sector: Government 1
By type: Combined 1
| Baralaba State School, Baralaba | Government | Combined | 20.0 km | 111 | 809 |
Sources
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Alberta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30021/alberta/topic/education